Week 3: Modified Plan Concept

Original 'India' Cruciform Plan

When faced with the cruciform plan of what appears to be a religious establishment of some kind, my first instinct was, in allowing this form to come through an elevation and plan, to revert to the 3-Dimensional crosses explored in the perspective drawing exercises.

Cruciform Adapted into 3D Crosses

Initial Adaption: Plan

Initial Adaption: Elevation

 After talking at some length with my tutor, and given the nature of my conceptual mash-up, it was decided that my bridge itself should both house the school and be the moving element, opening and closing spaces as it shifted across the valley. Thus, the cruciform design began to take a back-foot in my design process, influencing only the external truss structure.

Moving Elements Example

Secondary Bridge Adaptions

Space Partition Planning

Week 2: Moving Elements in Lumion

Building itself rotates to from the bridge crossing the valley

Week 2: Two Point Perspectives in SketchUp and Lumion

Original Two-Point Perspective Sketch

Sketch Realised in SketchUp

Exported to Lumion Valley

Week 2: 18 Two Point Perspectives

Week 1: Article MashUp

Grappling with issues of generic importance to do with monumentality in the moment of movement required a solution based on polarities and contrasts. This is echoed within the clusters that still manage to reflect a feeling of movement in their still forms to promise a richer dialogue between the mechanistic entrails and ensuing detail due to this structure. These clusters orbit in perspective like the linking bridge, to create something infinitely more poetic, in the reconciliation of the building’s contrasts. Moreover, through advanced engineering, structures could move and transform themselves-, demonstrating their capacity to penetrate and transform types, to overcome the problems posed by programme and to ignite a strong burst in creating that impression of movement and dynamism. In this way, the programme was broken down into a series of elusive urban fragments, that appear to be almost detached from one another, but admirably fulfils the sculptural and contextual promise in the outer world of appearances. Thus, these parts working together and forming the whole are satisfactorily embedded in the buildings dominant formal themes, so as not to disrupt its structure, but to overcome the ambiguities of collage in its anatomy or composition.

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How Santiago Calatrava Blurred Lines Between Architecture and Engineering to Make Buildings Move

1984 December: 'Virtuosity Around a Void'

 Soft Shells and Strange Star Clusters

Week 1: Valley (Donegal, Ireland)

Donegal, Ireland

Lumion Realisation

Week 1: One Point Perspective in SketchUp and Lumion Environment

One-Point In SketchUp

Imported in Lumion 'Valley'